Panther Pride Scholarship

The Knoxville Panther Scholarship Foundation Board has begun an initiative to encourage graduating classes of Knoxville High School to consider funding scholarships on an annual basis for our high school graduates. We have decided to name these financial awards Panther Pride Scholarships. Knoxville High School graduates are able to make donations to the Knoxville Panther Scholarship Foundation and designate those donations to go toward their graduating class Panther Pride Scholarship. Once contributions have reached a minimum of $500, we will begin awarding a scholarship in the name of that class and will continue to do so on an annual basis as long as the minimum ($500) is met. Each year, the Board will provide awarding classes a framed certificate listing all of the graduates of that particular class. This certificate will be presented to the scholarship recipient by members of the class at our annual awards ceremony. Every year there are many class reunions celebrating graduations ranging from as few as five years to some as many as fifty years ago. Many of those classes have begun raising and pledging funds to support a Panther Pride Scholarship. If your class members are getting together on a formal or informal basis, please contact our Board President, Curt Froyen (641.891.7170 or email him at: irishciguy@hotmail.com), who would be pleased to come speak to your group. At the 2014 Awards Banquet we awarded six Panther Pride Scholarships; the Class of 1961 (2) along with the Class of 1960, 1953, 1964 and 1982. The KHS Class of 1961 has raised enough funds to support two endowed scholarships. We applaud the efforts of the members of these classes and hope we can reach our goal of twenty Panther Pride Scholarships in the near future. To all of our alumni, follow the lead shown by the Panther Pride classes and show your pride by beginning your efforts at joining them in supporting the future graduates of Knoxville High School. Our special thanks go out to the Knoxville Alumni Association for their enthusiastic support of our efforts and for their tireless work on behalf of this project and the many other special things they do for Knoxville Alumni!